Improvement in whenches



GABRIEL UTLEY, or CHAPEL HILL, :NORTH (LAROLINA` Letters Patent No. 102,336, dated April 26, 1870.

m*- IMPROVEMENT IN 'WRENCHES.

m The Schedule referred to in these Letten Patent and making;` part o! the same.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that-I, GABRIEL UTLE, of Chapel Hill, in the county of Orange and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and improved Wrench; and l do hereby declare that the `following is a` full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making al part ot' this specification, in which the ligure is a perspective view of' my wrench,vshowing some of the lingers closed and others of them open.

This invention has for its object the ready adjnstment of a hand-wrench to a unt of' any size, without the use of a. screw. g

The invention consists of fingers of different widths all jointed on one pivot withinthe forked end or closed frame of'the wrench, by means of which such part of the inclosed space as is not occupied by the nut may be filled with one or more of the iingers.

In the drawing a the handle, b the forked end, and c a closed frame on the oppositeend of a wrench.

wires placed transversely ofthe parts b c, said fingersv being of different widths, and fillingthe frame c and the space between the .forks b, when all are turne'd down together. l

By turning Adown one or more of the fingers d the width ofthe space betweenthe forks and of'` that between the sides of the frame c is accommodated to nuts of dierent dimensions in a very easy and simple manner.

Having thusdescrihed my invention,

NVhat I claimvas new, and desire to seoure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of a hand-wrench with adjustable fingers, substantially in the manner described, and 4for the purpose set forth.

GABRIEL UTLEY. Witnesses:

J. M. ALEXANDER, PRIDE JONES. 

